A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.


William Ralph Inge

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JOSEPH INGE
Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN
I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its o...
W. R. INGE
Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that c...
W. R. INGE
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, A...
W. R. INGE
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to imp...
W. R. INGE
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted
W. R. INGE
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This i...
W. R. INGE
Many people believe that they are attracted by God or by nature, when they are only repelled by man.
W. R. INGE
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy
W. R. INGE
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
W. R. INGE
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
W. R. INGE
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
W. R. INGE
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist
W. R. INGE
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due
W. R. INGE
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which d...
W. R. INGE
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours
W. R. INGE
It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God i...
W. R. INGE
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits....
W. R. INGE
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f...
W. R. INGE
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances
W. R. INGE
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...
W. R. INGE
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...
W. R. INGE
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism
W. R. INGE
The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated according to our authorities, when the popula...
W. R. INGE
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy
W. R. INGE
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...
W. R. INGE
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
W. R. INGE
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
W. R. INGE
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passiv...
W. R. INGE
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that ...
W. R. INGE
We are distressed because our churches are half empty; and many of them would be emptier if the Gosp...
W. R. INGE
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
W. R. INGE
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
W. R. INGE
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
W. R. INGE
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
W. R. INGE
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has...
W. R. INGE
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mea...
W. R. INGE
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of ...
W. R. INGE